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The Reverend Dr. Kenyatta R. Gilbert is Professor of Homiletics at the Howard University School of Divinity. He earned his B.A. in Political Science from Baylor University and both his M.Div. and Ph.D. in Practical Theology from Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Gilbert specializes in the history, theory, and practice of African American preaching. His research focuses on the theology and rhetoric of prophetic preaching, African American religion, hermeneutical theory, and constructive practical theology.
He is the author of The Journey and Promise of African American Preaching (Fortress), A Pursued Justice: Black Preaching from the Great Migration to Civil Rights (Baylor), Exodus Preaching: Crafting Sermons about Justice and Hope (Abingdon), and a co-editor for Living the Word in Sojourners magazine.
Dr. Gilbert is the recipient of Louisville Institute’s First Book Grant for Minority Scholars and Howard University’s Emerging Scholar Award and Andrew Mellon Fellowship. Dr. Gilbert is an ordained Baptist minister and founder of The Preaching Project: Restoring Communities through Spoken Word www.thepreachingproject.org, a website ministry promoting the nurture of the preaching life of ministers serving African American churches and communities. He has served congregations in Texas, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, and Kenya. Dr. Gilbert is married to Dr. Allison Blow Gilbert, a pediatrician. The Gilbert’s have three daughters: Olivia Copeland, Ella Jane, and Ava Sage.
Preaching in the Jesus Tradition
Preacher, don’t let your perspective become an idol god. Too often preachers, in taking firm stances on religio-political controversial issues, fail to demonstrate how their biblical and theological positions align with what the Jesus of the gospels declared he...
CRT, Black Preachers, and the Myth of Objectivity
Friends, I've got to tell you. I find it exhausting responding to White evangelical fundamentalist scholars and Black preachers who insist on keeping folks captive to hard and fast rules of scriptural exegesis for preaching, while not taking structural racism...
PREACHERS, KNOW THE FACTS!
In an age of alternative facts, a preacher has to be in touch with what her or his Sunday hearers imbibe from various electronic and paper outlets. A preacher who gets messages doctrinally sound but disregards the goings-on in the public square will not meet the...
The Preaching Project Remembers Dr. Henry H. Mitchell
The Meeting House with Dwight A. Moody – Just Living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLG-7HbMGdo
What’s a Preacher to Do? Preaching in a Pandemic of Racism
Interview with Dr. Alyce M. McKenzie, Professor of Preaching, Director of SMU Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence https://youtu.be/6OlZqqM3Zy4 It's very important for preachers in these times to take a moment and think about what it means to have a robust...
Just Living Interview-God’s Presence, Wisdom, and Heart for Justice
Read Interview NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!!! BUY THIS BOOK "As a pastor I continuously see members struggle with establishing a solid devotional discipline and a practical understanding of the scriptures, Kenyatta Gilbert has helped me to...
Baylor Alum’s Message
https://www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2021/03/baylor-alums-message-hits-at-the-confluence-of-faith-race-and-social-justice/
John Lewis and the masks Black preachers wear on the public stage
U.S. Congressman John Robert Lewis was a Black preacher, inescapably so.Like his spiritual mentor, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the long-standing congressman was an ordained Black Baptist minister. It meant that he not only knew how to parse legislative briefs...
Professor Jared Interview with Kenyatta Gilbert
“Be self-critical. Realize that we all have blindspots irrespective of race, ethnicity, and theological perspective. But also be critical of how we’ve received our traditions and think about the religious heritage of persons who populate our classroom.”
Preaching in the Jesus Tradition
Preacher, don’t let your perspective become an idol god. Too often preachers, in taking firm stances on religio-political controversial issues, fail to demonstrate how their biblical and theological positions align with what the Jesus of the gospels declared he...
CRT, Black Preachers, and the Myth of Objectivity
Friends, I've got to tell you. I find it exhausting responding to White evangelical fundamentalist scholars and Black preachers who insist on keeping folks captive to hard and fast rules of scriptural exegesis for preaching, while not taking structural racism...
PREACHERS, KNOW THE FACTS!
In an age of alternative facts, a preacher has to be in touch with what her or his Sunday hearers imbibe from various electronic and paper outlets. A preacher who gets messages doctrinally sound but disregards the goings-on in the public square will not meet the...
The Preaching Project Remembers Dr. Henry H. Mitchell
The Meeting House with Dwight A. Moody – Just Living
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLG-7HbMGdo
What’s a Preacher to Do? Preaching in a Pandemic of Racism
Interview with Dr. Alyce M. McKenzie, Professor of Preaching, Director of SMU Perkins Center for Preaching Excellence https://youtu.be/6OlZqqM3Zy4 It's very important for preachers in these times to take a moment and think about what it means to have a robust...
Just Living Interview-God’s Presence, Wisdom, and Heart for Justice
Read Interview NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!!! BUY THIS BOOK "As a pastor I continuously see members struggle with establishing a solid devotional discipline and a practical understanding of the scriptures, Kenyatta Gilbert has helped me to...
Baylor Alum’s Message
https://www2.baylor.edu/baylorproud/2021/03/baylor-alums-message-hits-at-the-confluence-of-faith-race-and-social-justice/
John Lewis and the masks Black preachers wear on the public stage
U.S. Congressman John Robert Lewis was a Black preacher, inescapably so.Like his spiritual mentor, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the long-standing congressman was an ordained Black Baptist minister. It meant that he not only knew how to parse legislative briefs...
Professor Jared Interview with Kenyatta Gilbert
“Be self-critical. Realize that we all have blindspots irrespective of race, ethnicity, and theological perspective. But also be critical of how we’ve received our traditions and think about the religious heritage of persons who populate our classroom.”